Tag: Books
Groundbreaking book Waves of Change launched at Pacific Media Conference in...
By Jai Bharadwaj of The Australia Today
A pivotal book, Waves of Change: Media, Peace, and Development in the Pacific, has been released at the...
‘We’ve paid high price for being unable to protect freedom,’ says...
Fijivillage News
As an economy, Fiji has paid a "very high price for being unable to protect freedom" but people can speak and criticise the...
Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says educator
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation "must come" for Kanaky/New...
Israel’s arms and spyware: Used on Palestinians, sold to the world
Journalist and critic of Israeli apartheid Antony Loewenstein wrapped up his New Zealand tour with another damning address in Auckland last night but was...
Peter Lusk: Reflections on my mahi with peace researcher Owen Wilkes
The Owen Wilkes book Peacemonger, edited by May Bass and Mark Derby, was due to be launched in Wellington today after earlier launches in...
Gallery: Peace campaigners and nuclear-free advocates celebrate Peacemonger
Asia Pacific Report
Peace campaigners, activists and Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific stalwarts were among those who gathered in Auckland this evening to celebrate publication of...
Memories from Sweden of the dedicated peace researcher Owen Wilkes
Peacemonger, the new book published last month to celebrate the life and work of peace researcher and activist Owen Wilkes (1940-2005), is being launched...
Peacemonger – a tribute to peace researcher Owen Wilkes out soon
Raekaihau Press
Owen Wilkes (1940–2005) was known throughout the Pacific and across the world as an outstanding researcher on peace and disarmament.
His work:
• exposed plans...
As the FBI raids Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump reaches for unconvincing historical...
ANALYSIS: By Rodney Tiffen, University of Sydney
“These are dark times for our nation”, former US President Donald Trump declared when he announced his mansion...
A new book argues Julian Assange is being tortured. Will Australia’s...
REVIEW: By Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University
It is easy to forget why Julian Assange has been on trial in England for, well, seemingly forever.
Didn’t he...
‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of...
ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University
Those born after 2001 have only known a world “at war on terror”.
This means a generation growing up...
Former USP academic and author of Fiji coup books Robbie Robertson...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Retired politics professor and historian Robert "Robbie" Robertson, 69, co-author of the book Shattered Coups about the 1987 coups led by...
Pioneering saga of early Otago horse whisperer author’s dream come true
Asia Pacific Report
For Margaret Mills, adventurer, environmental campaigner, activist poet and Greenpeace stalwart, it was a lifetime dream coming true at 91.
When she opened...
Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author
From RNZ Saturday Morning
Described by a Guardian reviewer as "superb hate-reading", writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas's latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade...
Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the...
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
A book excerpt published by The Guardian narrates the survival of six shipwrecked Tongan boys on an island...
Covid-19 pandemic ‘spells end of neoliberal era’, says author
By RNZ News
Many people have revelled in a return to a simpler life in recent weeks. While lockdown restrictions are eased in many...
New climate journalism handbook targets ‘existential problem’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A new handbook for the existential problem of our time – climate change – has been published as a boost for...
Iran refugee detained in PNG wins Australia’s richest literary prize
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An Iranian asylum-seeker detained in Papua New Guinea under Australian asylum laws has won Australia's most valuable literary prize for a...
Journalist turns tales of undercover Papuan reporting into love novel
BOOK REVIEW: By Bambang Muryanto in Yogyakarta
A Dutch freelance journalist, Rohan (a pen name), had been interested in the political turmoil in Papua...
Hit & Run review – a painstaking and dangerous book challenge
REVIEW: By Dr Wayne Hope
It can’t have been easy for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and their political leaders to deny the results...
Hit & Run reply: This is what a military cover-up looks...
By Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson
The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating presented the NZ Defence Force response to the book Hit &...
Educator calls for less ‘tick-box teaching’ and more creativity
Professor Welby Ings ... talking "disobedient thinking" at TedxAuckland in 2013, some of the ideas underpinning his new book. Video: TedxTalks
Despite being expelled from...